The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1887-11-11
VOl.APUK.


language which is being introduced in
Europe and somewhat IN this country.
is thus practically illustrated by Chas
f. Sprague of New York.
The Volapuk vocabulary is made up
from the 1ndo-Germanic form of lang.
uage, English, German. Slayonic, and
the Romance tongues being especially
used.
Book in Volapuk is buk; that's from
| the English, pen is pen, also from the
Engllsh, table is tab, from the French;
chair is stul, from the German; needle
is mad, from the German; animal is
niva. from the Roumanian, and fur is
ibo, from the Russian. That's the
way it runs. The inventor, being con
versant with all the tongues, made the
word from the one he considered best
for his purpose. There are just q
letterss in the alphabet, and each letter
is always pronounced the same, so that
when one knows the power of each
letter he can read perfectly. There
are positively no exceptions to any
rule. Every letter IS always the same
no matter where you find 1t.
The name Nolapuk is pronounced in
three syllables with the accent on tn e
last. This is an invariable rule, all
| words are accented on the last syllable
and it is an excellent rule, for the
nearer thus knows just where the
word ends. The greatest difficulty for
person trying to understand for
eign language iluently spoken Is that
there seems to be no separation be-
tween the words; it sounds like all one
"long word. The is sounded as IN
$50" the as in father and the
dotted Il as in German or like the
French u. Now the meaning OF the
word in World 's-speech. or the Lam
guage of the World 1t is COM
, pound word, and its elements are vol
world, and puk, speech. connected oy
the vowel a, which is the sign OF the
posSessiye case, or 1t is called, N INA
: tal., 1.-THE Whose-case. Kim pro
nounced keem) means whos ana the
cases are four. klmfal, k'mafal, Kim
efa., klmifal, deriving their names
from the forms:
M IL,
Kline. to whoml klmi, whom.
Kim eseaom peneGl. Who has sent
the letter! , 10.
sent it. r,o,o
friend has sent It!
: Fien t,dela. The teachers 1rieno'
Kline essedom omi! TO whom mas ne
IL sent it!
4 Kege. To the king.
Kisi esedom rege! What (oblectl1e
ID has been sent to the KING! -,
III Eseaom penedi. lie has sent 'n1
T. letter. ;.h. s,si,,
evolve from these phrases all VIC l""'
Il, of Eolapuk grammar We Con go i,
{, suggestion Of how verbs change 1llel
D, neTsons by intlmating that as :. =
:, means |. oil, thou lor you adu1esseu ~ y
50 ona narsonl. obs, we, OILS. you lp!ula']
sn esedob signifies in one Word' Nav
IA Govt. eseaobs. we have sent, escuo,la
r. Nav hava sent, When we state lia
tie ;saiom means he had sent, oseaonl' - .
IL "i,l Sand usedom, he will nave se,.
tha reader may make a guess tiaI W.
.nw.l .n at the beginning Of vern ue m
I term,nes its tense. while the lllu,ia va
y tions Of person and number are .. W. y
= end When he studies the e,an''nh gran ~,
more thoroughly he VIII fhu 'i.aS .asnla m
tense yowels are series. IN iesu.a ;ls :
ardar wh,ch makes 1t impoSsAoo -
forget them n; . Il.
los = ga, "a. pa "a dotted pc, pi' %, ,,anaht pu;
II For m example: patidos. it Is .ausai '. nati
10 ratidos "a dotted. it was talgn'; i psilI "
dos, it has been taught, po'iuuS. say. bee,
= be-, be taught; putidos, it Will nave w.
= taught. H. ~ aadiua
= The adjectives ere made = by y,e: aaran1 .rnd
N .;t" to the nouns, for examp'.. ..cosd d.
) is 1.-The good. and ,gudlk ,asik. ,s seoa. good
II is compared as follows: suu'di, y, dotted,
Gsaa''Th ssst. The endinEs are "lwass ,s;setve We
. sa,ne. o.nu. SO we can dismiss ars au,sIY mad
SAM, sam ths % above, Adverbs are 'l,'u n"i
W with aiding 1hs ""oSt o to the adjective 'u'
iko" is .'well, ~, is
.b1 Da1 :. " 2 Vii